Children in mountain striving for the opportunities to go to school >>the home of Children in mountain>>plant farm crop

    Geography of Haxi Town is high, its total farmland area is 28,200 Mu, is the main food & oil produce base. But above 85% of all land is dry, half dry mountainous region. One person has only 1 Mu farmland on average. So the crops people plant are almost the ones mature in one year, such as wheat, soybean, barley, etc. Recently, the people there develop sunlight greenhouse, plant cash crops, such as ginseng fruit and double germ mushroom etc. under the strong support from local government.

Plant farm crop
秋后丰收的小麦
成熟了的人参果

The wheat in harvest

 Mature ginseng fruit

    In recent years, under the help of government, people introduced in new kind of wheat to plant, so harvest raise. 280 kilograms is produced from one Mu. Market selling price is about RMB 1.2 Yuan. The income is only about RMB 336 Yuan one year. The harvest in each year comes to 1,000 kilograms, the wheat gross earnings in every year also only RMB 1200 Yuan. After two years, plant technique of ginseng fruit become mature much. Now, green house with an area of 600 square meters has a harvest of 6,000 kilograms ginseng fruits. The selling price of 1000 grams is between RMB 0.4 to 0.8 Yuan. The ginseng fruits bring RMB 2400-4800 Yuan incomes to planters.